Dr. Dorothy C. Yancy

Dorothy Cowser Yancy, a Johnson C. Smith University alumna, served as president of Johnson C. Smith and later of Shaw University. She is a political scientist and one of the first women to lead those campuses.

• President of Johnson C. Smith University and later Shaw University.
• Political scientist and HBCU administrator.
• Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1997.